> to create unity by exposing everyone to the same large landscape of stories, opinions and beliefs Or, in other words: to the same reality (it doesn't matter

> to create unity by exposing everyone to the same large landscape of stories, opinions and beliefs Or, in other words: to the same reality (it doesn't matter whether it's factually accurate, only that it's widely shared). Is there a way back to more shared reality without one side wiping out the other? A common threat that just makes the differences in perception meaningless next to the shared perception of that threat? Aliens invading would probably help, at least temporarily. Maybe, if you keep that up for two generations, they'll have forgotten most of the ideological identities that had divided them, and will only rediscover them after some amount of lasting peace?